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...bought the beloved Washington Redskins in 1999 and then this year moved its summer-training camp to Loudon County. Snyder is a herald of what is to come; a group of tech executives is mobilizing to bring a professional baseball team to northern Virginia--not Washington. Ted Leonsis, an AOL executive, formed a group that bought a majority interest in Washington's NBA, NHL and WNBA franchises. Then Leonsis made it clear he wanted not only to own but to win: he hired Michael Jordan as president of basketball operations for the NBA's Washington Wizards...
...reasoning goes about like this: think of some of this year's biggest business stories--AOL's merging with Time Warner, Vivendi's acquiring Seagram, Napster's hijacking the music industry. They are all, in some sense, about devising more and creative ways to suck up bandwidth. Words, music, video, interactive TV--they're all data that have to go through the electronic plumbing of the network...
...bring a similar battalion, led by Washington bureau chief Michael Duffy and Nation editor Priscilla Painton, and our "mechanical conveniences" will go beyond teletype and television. We'll have cell phones, laptops, wireless e-mail and connectivity to our computer systems around the world. With CNN and AOL, we'll report both actively and interactively for print, television and the Internet. I say this not to brag, but so that some person sitting in this chair 52 years from now can find this page and be amused by how quaint we seem...
...boards and fan sites for a quick update. At members-only well.com a science-fiction writer named Martha Soukup posts dozens of updates a day with court-reporter accuracy. For more heated debate, I head over to the "Big Brother-USA" message boards on realworldblows.com the live chats on AOL or the Big Brother Table Talk discussion at salon.com...
...Bush and Vice President Al Gore, to address them. FSB (FORTUNE Small Business) assembled its first CEO round table at the Four Seasons Hotel in Chicago in May. Participants included nine business owners from the Chicago area representing a cross section of industries: Len Batterson, a founder of AOL and now chairman and CEO of Vcapital.com an online venture-capital marketplace; Paul Cooper, CEO of Perceptual Robotics, a maker of video software for the Web; Andrew Cory, president of Cory & Associates, an insurance brokerage and employee-leasing firm; Keith Hasty, president and CEO of Best Foam Fabricators, a family-owned...